Well, it clearly wprks for a whole lot of folks and I'm not really in a position to critique it too much. However, I play a lot of musical instruments in vario

Well, it clearly wprks for a whole lot of folks and I'm not really in a position to critique it too much. However, I play a lot of musical instruments in various semi-professional capacities (on stage for money, but not enough to live off of) including pedal steel guitar, piano, clarinet, trumpet, double bass, cello, drums, accordion, among other stuff. Every instrument has issues. If the flute works it works, but I have an okay sliver armstrong flute I am supposed to re-pad and return to my mother, and after playing through the Rubank beginner's book I feel like the ergonomics aren't good at all. Like, I gave myself a wrist injury learning trumpet and trumpet still feels like a way more ergonomic device. If it doesn't bother you then I can't argue with ya. But as someone who has a whole pantheon of badly-designed instruments to look at it's easy for me to say it's not my favorite. I spend a lot of time with a clarinet lately and can see the value in a vertical flute.